A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created ...
NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.
I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...
Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...
A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...
The Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora, or CINEMA, mission will fly nine smallsats in polar orbits to study the Earth’s magnetotail. Credit: JHUAPL WASHINGTON — NASA has ...
NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...
Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.